Quotes About Commitment

And you won't have to wake up at four in the morning," she said, a point that I found most compelling.

We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not just when it is easy, but when it is hard.

What's missing is not money, but a national sense of urgency.

For if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.

If I had a spare minute, the thank-you notes I wrote and the birthday calls I made would be directed not to them but to our volunteers and young staff out in the field.

Well, that's not even a question, Mr. President," Nancy said impatiently. "We've come too far to give up now." She thought for a moment. Then, as if testing out an argument she'd later use with her caucus, she added, "If we let this go, it would be rewarding the Republicans for acting so terribly, wouldn't it? We're not going to give them the satisfaction.

Thanks for sticking with this," Axe said, his voice choked up. I put my arm around him, feeling my own emotions swell. "This is why we do the work," I said. "This. Right here.

People missed their children's soccer games and dance recitals. People got home too late to tuck toddlers into bed. Those like Rahm, Axe, and others, who'd decided against putting their families through the disruption of moving to Washington, barely saw their spouses and kids at all.

It was only by hitching my wagon to something larger than myself that I was ultimately able to locate a community and purpose for my life.

You can strive to be first in service, first in love.

I remember looking at my calendar and realizing that over a span of a year and a half, I had taken exactly seven days off. The rest of the time I had typically worked twelve to sixteen hours a day.

How many of us are tested in that way, asked to risk careers we've long dreamed of in the service of some greater good?

You're too important for me to take no as an answer

She's happy now she's met someone. And I have my work." "Is that enough?" "Sometimes.

They chanted and stomped and swore to never leave

If I say I will do something, I must do it. Otherwise, how will people know that my word is true?

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Honest, decent men and women with attainable ambitions, and the determination to see those ambitions through.

1963: "We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

work is essential.

Michelle backstage, beautiful in white, squeezing my hand, gazing lovingly into my eyes, and telling me "Just don't screw it up, buddy!

The fuss of being president, the pomp, the press, the physical constraints - all that I could have done without. The actual work, though? The work, I loved. Even when it didn't love me back.

wouldn't get married on her birthday. He wouldn't do that to the mother of his children, even if the divorce had been finalized two years ago this past April. Nicole made a sound of disgust. "Of

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up.